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This is a sound recording of British refugee children in the United States, Canada, and South Africa exchanging Christmas greetings with their parents in Great Britain.

This sound recording captures President Roosevelt's address broadcast from a Pacific Coast naval base to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, during which he accepted a fourth term nomination.

This sound recording captures a broadcast made by President Harry S. Truman from the White House to the conference in San Francisco that drafted the United Nation's (U.N.) Charter. On the task facing the new U.N. organization, he said: "With ever-increasing brutality and destruction, modern warfare, if unchecked, would ultimately crush all civilization....The essence of our problem here is to provide sensible machinery for the settlement of disputes among nations."

This sound recording captures a KGU newsman's report from a rooftop in Honolulu to the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in New York, in which he described the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, damage suffered, and the fighting still in progress.

This sound recording captures a speech in which President Harry S. Truman described the results of the Potsdam Conference and announced the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

This sound recording captures a speech in which the Undersecretary of State asked all U.S. citizens to do their utmost for the war effort.

This sound recording of the surrender of Japan includes the surrender ceremony and statements by President Harry S. Truman, General Douglas MacArthur, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. General MacArthur opened the surrender ceremony aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, presided over the signing, and closed the ceremony. Newscasters Webley Edwards and Merrill Mueller described the proceedings. President Harry S. Truman addressed the American people from the White House after the signing, and said: "The thoughts and hopes of all America -- indeed of all the civilized world -- are centered tonight on the battleship Missouri. On the recording, General MacArthur proclaimed victory, as he said: "Today the guns are silent, a great tragedy has ended, a great victory has been won, the skies no longer rain death, the seas bear only calmness, men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight, the entire world lies quietly at peace, the whole mission has been completed."

BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING: Washington, D.C., House of Representatives, Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston S. Churchill's second address (first address - 26 Dec 1941) to joint session of Congress. Introduced by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (Democrat, Tex.). Churchill states "For more than five hundred days-every day a day we have toiled and suffered and dared, shoulder to shoulder against the cruel enemy-we have acted in close combination or concert in many parts of the world, on land, on sea, and in the air." Churchill speaks of partnership between United States and Great Britain in war and peace; progress of World War II; need to provide aid to China; his war-plans for Allies to win war;his and President Roosevelt's desire to meet with Joseph Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek in near future; how Russia (as an ally) is faring against Germany.Churchill expresses his confident in ability of Allies to win war, but stresses that they should not relax their efforts. Danger of undue prolongation of war. Supreme objective of United Nations is discharge its duty to future of world and to destiny of man.